Category: Theology
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Apple on Apple | (Steve) Jobs for Life
There has been some interesting discussion around Steve Jobs’ unfortunate temporary withdrawal from Apple due to ill health. Jobs is perhaps unique in that he is a genuine figurehead – and as Apple is the world’s largest company, that’s important. If he goes, what will remain? Andy Crouch quotes Jobs speaking in his Harvard Commencement…
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Two Halves of Life – a question on ‘Other’
I wanted to respond to a question that came through Twitter – always welcome, by the way – about the ‘two halves of life’ thesis I mention in Other. “I’ve just finished the section on ‘Loving the Other with the Self.’ Would you say that our lives are lived in two halves, and that these…
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Martin Luther King | Love for the Other is Dangerous and Political
Although mathematically it turns out that this should be your worst day of the year, given that it’s Martin Luther King day in the US, I hope there’s some level of goodness in it that defeats the equations. I was reminded by Jay Bakker today that MLK once said, “I have decided to stick with…
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Developing Peace: TAZ, Empathy and Radical Listening
Was great to meet up with Kevin Corcoran again last night, who’s got another group of students from Calvin College in the US over in London and Belfast to explore issues of peace and reconciliation. I made some notes for a talk I gave to them which I thought I’d upload here. Please – these…
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‘Other’ now available in the US/UK as eBook | US Print Edition Coming Soon
Really pleased to announce that the UK edition of ‘Other‘ is available in the US and Canada as an eBook via Amazon (as it is in the UK too.) As I’m sure you know, you don’t need an actual Kindle to read Kindle downloads – you can get the software for free on your Mac…
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Sharing The Peace (Then Being Right Haddocks)
Interesting piece by Damian Thompson in the Daily Telegraph (HT Dave Walker) about the perils of ‘sharing the peace.’ I particularly like ‘Spock Papist’s comment: I guess the idea is that you shake hands and show affection to your neighbour for 1 minute in the week. Then you can go back to being a right…